Ep 539 - The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In the world of hardboiled detectives, no one is harder boiled than Sam Spade, a guy who loves to get one over on both the criminals AND the cops while also romancing dames.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.2	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.5	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.3	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:21.3	Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot's podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:44.6	My name is Craig.
0:45.6	My name is Andrew.
0:46.6	I realized halfway through that I wanted to slip into some sort of detective voice,
0:50.6	talking real fast, getting the criminals.
0:54.8	Get that bread.
0:56.6	Did they say that?
0:57.6	Get that bread?
0:58.6	Those jokers got a lot of dough.
1:01.2	Can we throw them in the clink?
1:03.8	Yeah, throw them in the slammer.
1:05.7	I'm not going to play the sap for you.
1:07.9	I'm house tricks.
1:10.2	This is our book podcast for one of us reads a book and tells the other person about it.
1:16.9	This is a podcast noir.
1:22.1	Andrew what book did you read this week?
1:25.2	I read The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
1:29.7	Correct, you did.
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